Razengan

> concern on the impact of this type of thing on the mental development of children.

Do we, or our children, ever learn to farm, mine, chop wood, lay bricks, make operating systems, or program in assembly language?

Does that affect or limit your or your children's ability to eat food, sit on chairs, sleep in beds, or use computers and phones?

> Volume matters lol..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

Yeah, people suddenly got selective amnesia and act like "slop" never existed before 3 years ago.

Hell, look at the video games from the 1980s. Download the scans of any early gaming magazine or a MAME ROM archive. At least 50% of the games were derivative slop. Crappy movies and books were around for a 100 years too.

> I didn't say they were, what the hell.

You said that's not selling out users, because it was breaking websites if the users wanted to.

That is taking a feature [farther] away from [power] users,

in a move that favors other companies.

Nobody was "accidentally" clicking that Disable Javascript button, what the hell

Oh and did you notice how for several macOS versions the "Manage Website Data…" button in Safari Settings, for selectively removing cookies, magically fails to work?

Oh OH and how iCloud+'s paid Private Relay feature doesn't work in authoritarian countries like the UAE etc where it would actually be needed?

Every big company reaches a point where their business becomes selling their users out to other businesses.

Apple has been doing that for years:

- The iCloud Keychain API that lets Facebook, TikTok etc. track users across devices, app reinstalls and device resets.

- Ads in formerly ad-free built-in apps.

- Removing the Disable Javascript from Safari's menu so you can't easily disable the now-mandatory tracking bullshit on most sites.

- Ads

- "Force closing" apps on iOS not really force quitting them instantly anymore, giving each app a "last breath" chance to call home about anything it wants to send about you.

- Ads

- And now they've added nagging when you try to cancel recurring in-app subscriptions.

Mine is from the most awesome and auspicious anime: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann :)

Ah yes, thanks for calling that out

The general air is so pessimistic that we forget about those!

And don't forget Number 5! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Circuit_(1986_film)

Sci-fi writers were generally wrong or over-simplistic about many predictions, mostly just extrapolating whatever the current zeitgeist of their time was, and stretching it out to 50 or so years into the future

I mean look how most science fiction of the 1980s depicted the world of the future as dominated by Japan... Look at Robocop 3 :)

Computers were then just appearing or increasing in public discussion, along with fears that they'll make humans less human somehow: Like in this Computer Chronicles video about word processing from 1983 at 4:08: "Some writers are concerned that computer assistance may promote dry bland writing."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt0OoXluC8g

AI predictions were generally hostile to humanity: Terminator appeared in 1984, and the first Alien movie in 1979 had an antagonist android. 2001 A Space Odyssey with a disagreeable AI came out in 1968. All way before the real world had anything remotely close to today's AI: It was a reaction to the appearance of computers themselves.

On the other hand, Star Trek had optimistic AI like Data.

Humankind's own sentient creations leading to the ruin of humans is probably a trope in fiction since thousands of years, with golems or summoned demons etc.

> Many...

Weasel words: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Clar...

nani

That's one of the biggest problems on these silo'ed platforms

Also afraid of this happening on Apple Music, Books etc

I wish they at least stored the title of the video

Of course.

I hated Claude and their sus shit since a year ago, you can see in my comment history.

They don't even let you change your email.

They also don't let you remove your payment info.

Literally every other service/store in the multiverse lets you do that.

Then there's crap like https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

Let's just hope that both US and Chinese models remain usable enough by the masses for long enough for someone in Europe or Japan or some other actual free country to make a truly open AI :')

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doh

I'm dumb, but I meant, anything else and similarly magical?

I guess there's the ATP stuff used by all lifeforms..

Have we discovered any way to directly generate a stream of electrons without any mechanical movement?

Until the people in power start going to jail or losing their jobs, instead of just paying fines as "the cost of doing business" from the company accounts, probably nothing will be fixed

Man, people stopped caring about all the leaks and breaches and dark web data sales over 10 years ago

Hide yo apps, hide yo websites, hide yo hosts

Imagine if we move to Mars only to find out we used to live there...

That's exactly how you look like to the rest of the world boy

That in itself might be a social commentary.. :)

It's been ages.. Howl's Moving Castle is the most popular, and had an anime by Studio Ghibli

Normally you'd start with the first book from the Chrestomanci series, but I think The Magicians of Caprona (1980) and Witch Week (1982) might be the best for a new fan.

It's shame she passed away before writing much more and getting the fame she deserved :(

She had a unique and cozy style and way of world building and character design, where there is challenge and conflict but not deep malice or misery, if that makes sense..

This is why we never escape the cycle of rebirth.

True. Just look at the graffiti in Pompeii and by Romans on the pyramids etc.

Harry Potter was published before 2000, and is upped by Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci in every way.

I'd rather have one of the Baginses (not the Sackville mind you)

Lazy asses like me who have too many games to play and anime to watch at home would also like a..nah nevermind just leave us alone :)